Bookish oddments

    Some miscellaneous links with which to end the week:

    Last year I quoted Lawrence Norfolk on notebooks; he'll be on Radio 3 next Wednesday (21st. May) talking about that very subject to A.S. Byatt, David Mitchell and others. See also the British Library's Discovering Literature site, an online repository for manuscripts, diaries, notebooks and more.

    Further to Wednesday's Mary Stewart post, I've put links in the comments there to a couple of the newspaper obituaries, but for a more personal view, here's a piece by author Jan Jones on what Mary Stewart means to her.

    We have our own Cornflower Books reading map - and a new post is long, long overdue, I know - but here's Bloomsbury's version for you to 'read your way around the world'.

    Books in boxes - take a look at some of the work of the London Library's conservation studio.

    The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one I follow keenly. Here's a neat summing up of this year's shortlist by Richard Lee, founder of the Historical Novel Society.

    Lastly, do listen to 'Pulped Fiction' - an entertaining and wide-ranging look at the waxing and waning of literary reputations by novelist D.J. Taylor.

Comments

[Darlene]

The Pulped Fiction broadcast is just the thing to listen to as I head out the door with Deacon in a minute. Thanks, Cornflower!

[Cornflower]

You're welcome, Darlene. Have a good walk!

[Lyn]

Thanks for the link to Pulped Fiction, it was wonderful. I think the reprint publishers have been the biggest boost to forgotten reputations. Virago & Penguin were mentioned but there are so many more like Persephone, Victorian Secrets etc.

[Cornflower]

Glad you enjoyed it, too, Lyn, and you're right about the other, lesser known publishers who do so much to restore writers to 'currently read' status.

[Anji]

Thanks for the link to Pulped Fiction. It was great and I was so pleased that I was able to receive it here as that doesn't always happen.